As part of the new "Architecture Thursdays", Microsoft Regional Director Scott Howlett and Karen McGregor from MSDN Canada will be delivering a pretty cool webcast on Thursday, February 16, 2006. This webcast will describe the architecture behind Toronto...

Greg Reinacker has cooked up an image aggregator prototype for NewsGator . Very cool stuff. I ran his implementation against my unread items earlier tonight and discovered many images that grabbed my attention. As a result, I ended up reading a few interesting...

Mistakes can and often will happen in software development. When they do, it's useful to have a means of backing out those mistakes. With projects in Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Beta 3), such a means exists in the form the utility, TFSDeleteProject...

Today, I'm in Vancouver where I'll be delivering a presentation on Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to the Software QA Vancouver User Group, also known as VanQ . Here's the session abstract:
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) helps to ensure quality...

On Wednesday, January 25, the Calgary .NET User Group will be hosting its first event of 2006. This session will run from 5 PM to 8 PM and will star the VSTS guru himself; Joel Semeniuk . (Joel is a Microsoft Regional Director , a Microsoft MVP , and...

Julie Lerman : "It is much more effective and satisfying than spending any more time googling (or msdn-ing) this problem."
I'm happy to hear that Julie was able to get her problem resolved through Microsoft Support . I've called them three times in...

Once again, MSDN Canada is hosting an inter-user group competition . If you and your friends enjoy coding and have got some wicked ideas around applications then this is your chance to win some cool prizes for your efforts. Do you have what it takes?...

From "Man, That Took Too Long to Post" Department:
Plumbers at Work , Episode 2 - Right Planet, Wrong Universe is now up on Community Radio at MSDN Canada . Also, we've fixed the RSS feed to the show (subscribe here ).
Here's the show notes for...

I am a developer at heart. However, I find it both interesting and useful to read about issues facing IT professionals today. That's why I subscribed to the Microsoft TechNet Magazine last year. This is a wonderful publication that's similar to the MSDN...

Thom Robbins has posted a screencast to Channel 9 . In his latest screencast (located here ), Thom provides an overview of Web Services and support for building Web Services in Visual Studio 2005. (The running time is about 18 minutes.)

On Wednesday, February 8th, the Calgary .NET User Group and the Alberta .NET User Group will host the INETA User Group Visual Studio 2005 Launch event. This extended 3-hour session will highlight many of the new features of Visual Studio 2005. (Please...

Canadian Microsoft Regional Director Derek Hatchard and friends have launched the Ardent Dev Blog . One particularly interesting aspect of this launch is the introduction of its Ask the Experts page. Essentially, it's a page that you can go to and ask...

Paint.NET continues to impress. Earlier today, v2.6 Beta 2 was released and thanks to its built-in auto-update facility, I had the latest bits up & running in seconds. Rick Brewster has a summary of the changes made for this release posted here .

Jeff Beehler : ... we're planning on releasing our TFS [Team Foundation Server] Release Candidate in early February...
Great news, especially for those who want to incorporate TFS today; we will support migrating your existing data to the v1.0 bits...